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Danny O'Dea

Danny O'Dea

From a small town outside a small city in Albemarle County. Film and mutual aid enthusiast. Permanently banned from Windsor, Canada.

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    Danny O’Dea’s 2021 in Review

    by Danny O'Dea January 13, 2022
    by Danny O'Dea January 13, 2022

    To write a year-in-review list immediately after the year ends is always a fascinating experiment. What ends up sticking in your brain five, ten, twenty years after the New Year’s Eve confetti has settled is…

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  • Features

    ‘Midnight Mass’: This is Cinema

    by Danny O'Dea December 2, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea December 2, 2021

    I sat down today to write a review for The French Dispatch. Or the Last Night in Soho. Or Dune. Something new. Something in the zeitgeist. Something the SEO algorithms would have been really proud…

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    A Series of Thoughts I Had While Watching ‘The Dig’

    by Danny O'Dea April 9, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea April 9, 2021

    “That was a pretty savage review that Adina had, let’s see what it’s actually like.” “Ralph Fiennes is really leaning into this whole pipe schtick. I wonder if that’ll be a thing this whole movie?”…

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  • ReviewsSuperhero

    ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Has Arrived

    by Danny O'Dea March 24, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea March 24, 2021

    Prologue One of the grandest moments in film history came to a head last week, shifting the cinematic landscape forever. Careers were ended. Lives were changed. In short, the most significant event in the medium…

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  • DramaReviews

    Jewish International Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’

    by Danny O'Dea March 20, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea March 20, 2021

    Judith Kerr was nearly 50 years old when she heard something she could not excuse. Her children remarked to her one night that they had always imagined her childhood as being similar to The Sound…

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    ‘Dear Comrades!’: A Portrait of Forgotten Fury

    by Danny O'Dea March 19, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea March 19, 2021

    As it happens, human history is so speckled by atrocities, so littered with tragedies and the bodies left behind from them, that We-As-A-Collective are bound to forget more than we memorialize. It’s simply the law…

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    ‘Nomadland’: Worth Every Ounce of Hype (and More)

    by Danny O'Dea March 11, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea March 11, 2021

    Towards the end of Nomadland, Chloe Zhao, laying all her cards on the table, tells us what her film is really about. “What’s remembered, lives,” says the forgotten woman while the sun sets deep in…

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    Jewish International Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive’

    by Danny O'Dea February 22, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea February 22, 2021

    A man sits on a bench, wrapped in a coat he’s owned for years. He rests his feet at the head of Jaffa Street in Jerusalem. A tour guide comes along, decked to the nines…

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    ‘Earwig and the Witch’: “The Future of Animation” Should Stay in the Past

    by Danny O'Dea February 19, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea February 19, 2021

    Following up their recent Academy Award-nominated feature, the Japanese animation stalwart and truly a standard-bearer brand synonymous with quality animated film, Studio Ghibli turned to a classic novel by famous British young adult fantasy author Dianne…

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    ‘The Little Things’: Well, At Least There Was Denzel!

    by Danny O'Dea February 4, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea February 4, 2021

    What’s Up with the Weather? There’s an old saying well-trod by old men in the county that I come from. They jump over each other to be the first one to say whenever a young…

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    ‘Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself’ Demands Your Attention

    by Danny O'Dea February 2, 2021
    by Danny O'Dea February 2, 2021

    Have you heard the story of the Rouletista? I promise you don’t know what you’re getting into when you hit play on Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself. It’s impossible, really, and that’s okay. It’s…

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  • AnimationReviews

    ‘Soul’ Completes Pixar’s Existential Trilogy

    by Danny O'Dea December 31, 2020
    by Danny O'Dea December 31, 2020

    For Context: When Inside Out was released in 2015, it was a revelation. On one hand, it was simply another link in the Pixar chain of “what if ________ had feelings?” (pick an object and…

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  • Retrospectives

    O Brother, Happy Birthday!

    by Danny O'Dea December 24, 2020
    by Danny O'Dea December 24, 2020

    This may be a controversial opinion, but O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the Coen Brothers’ best film. It’s my favorite, anyway. And there when I feel quite passionately about something, I find it helps to lay…

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    Happy 20th Kuzco!!!!!

    by Danny O'Dea December 16, 2020
    by Danny O'Dea December 16, 2020

    The Emperor’s New Groove turned 20 years old this week and, despite my inability to accurately spell “Emperor” on the first try, it remains one of the warmest, most charming films in my memory. Starring…

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  • Surveys

    You Can Only Keep the First 15 Minutes of One, Single Movie: Make Your Pick!

    by Danny O'Dea November 12, 2020
    by Danny O'Dea November 12, 2020

    When I first asked my girlfriend this question, she said “Danny what the hell, get out, I’m trying to teach first grade virtually, get out of the room!” “Perfect,” I said, “let’s ask them too!”…

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  • Reviews

    Please Consider: ‘Over the Garden Wall’

    by Danny O'Dea November 5, 2020
    by Danny O'Dea November 5, 2020

    How the gentle wind, Beckons through the leaves, As autumn colors fall. Dancing in a swirl, Of golden memories, The loveliest lies of all.   October came to a close this last weekend, which means…

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